{"id":10614,"date":"2005-06-07T17:19:07","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T21:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/07\/twilight-update\/"},"modified":"2005-06-07T17:19:07","modified_gmt":"2005-06-07T21:19:07","slug":"twilight-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/twilight-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Twilight Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been working on <strong>Twilight<\/strong>-related things.  Not many, mind you.  I&#8217;ve been pre-occupied with sifting stuff, throwing stuff out, filing stuff, and relocating stuff to sit with like stuff in preparation for moving stuff to a new storage building, er, house.  <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s convenient, because I can say I&#8217;m&#8221; incubating ideas to enhance the plot and sub-plots to the story.&#8221;  What on earth do I mean by that?  I have no idea, but it sounds good.  What I AM doing is delving deeper into my antagonist character to figure out what makes him tick in several key areas, because, while I know in my heart what drives him to do what he does, I don&#8217;t have the details of the backstory down yet.  While driving over to Northern Tool and Equipment this afternoon, I learned his sister&#8217;s name&#8211;Sherry.  I also need to understand his &#8220;politics&#8221; a bit more&#8211;doing some research there. <\/p>\n<p>Once I capture these things, I&#8217;ll know where I need to flesh out the manuscript to make sense to the reader, who doesn&#8217;t know these things and will be wondering what on earth drives this man to do what he does.  I&#8217;m certain they&#8217;ll also be wondering why they should care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been working on Twilight-related things. Not many, mind you. I&#8217;ve been pre-occupied with sifting stuff, throwing stuff out, filing stuff, and relocating stuff to sit with like stuff in preparation for moving stuff to a new storage building, er, house. That&#8217;s convenient, because I can say I&#8217;m&#8221; incubating <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/twilight-update\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twilight"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}